Few people outside IT know much about application delivery controllers, the Swiss army knife appliances that perform load balancing, caching, SSL offloading, and a host of other vital data center tasks. Almost everyone inside IT, though, understands exactly how essential ADCs are to network uptime and performance.

Read how Citrix NetScaler 10, the latest version of one of the industry’s most respected ADCs, is the first such appliance to support active-active clustering. And as the results of an exclusive survey from IDG Research Services reveal, the importance of that breakthrough rings loud and clear among IT executives.